This just in! The 2009 Academy Award nominations were just announced, and as expected, Penelope Cruz scored a well-deserved Best Supporting Actress nod for her role as Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. This marks Cruz's second Oscar nomination--her first was for Best Actress for her performance in 2006's Volver.

4AM is usually a pretty quiet time of night in any city, even one that never sleeps like New York. But last night, appropriately under a shroud of darkness, hundreds upon hundreds of people (myself and Latina's entertainment editor Angie Romero included) lined up at theaters across America, coffee or Red Bull in hand, to be one of the first to see this summer's most anticipated movie, The Dark Knight. Most bought tickets weeks in advance. Many had spent upwards of four hours waiting in line in the middle of the night.

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